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An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.

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Verb group 8

Realize 84% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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Realize 84% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Understand 84% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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Understand 84% connected

To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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Visualize 84% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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Visualize 84% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Appearance 76% connected

The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Effect 76% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Envisage 76% connected

To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.

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Example 76% connected

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

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Ideate 76% connected

The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

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Imagine 76% connected

To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.

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Impression 76% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Model 76% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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Representation 76% connected

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Visualize 76% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Narrower term 37

Chiaroscuro 76% connected

Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro

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Conceit 76% connected

That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.

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Concentrate 76% connected

To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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Cyclorama 76% connected

A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic e…

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Diorama 76% connected

A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combinati…

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Exaggeration 76% connected

The act of heaping or piling up.

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Foil 76% connected

To tread under foot; to trample.

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God 76% connected

Good.

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Graphic 76% connected

Alt. of Graphical

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Guy 76% connected

A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which hold…

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Hyperbole 76% connected

A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as m…

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Hypotyposis 76% connected

A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.

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Iconography 76% connected

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the…

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Idol 76% connected

An image or representation of anything.

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Imago 76% connected

An image.

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Impression 76% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Inset 76% connected

To infix.

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Irony 76% connected

Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.

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Kenning 76% connected

of Ken

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Likeness 76% connected

The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

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Metaphor 76% connected

The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship…

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Metonymy 76% connected

A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that…

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Oxymoron 76% connected

A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.

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Panorama 76% connected

A complete view in every direction.

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Personification 76% connected

The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.

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Picture 76% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Reflection 76% connected

The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.

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Reflexion 76% connected

See Reflection.

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Ringer 76% connected

One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.

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Scan 76% connected

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

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Scarecrow 76% connected

Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.

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Semblance 76% connected

Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

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Simile 76% connected

A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.

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Synecdoche 76% connected

A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for…

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Transparency 76% connected

The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.

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Waxwork 76% connected

Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

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Zeugma 76% connected

A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, "hic ill…

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Personify 74% connected

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

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Personify 74% connected

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

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Project 74% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Project 74% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Tropical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes;…

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Tropical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes;…

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Synonym 16

Double 92% connected

Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.

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Effigy 92% connected

The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likeness…

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Epitome 92% connected

A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.

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Fancy 92% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Figure 92% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Icon 92% connected

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

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Paradigm 92% connected

An example; a model; a pattern.

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Persona 92% connected

Same as Person, n., 8.

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Picture 92% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Project 92% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Prototype 92% connected

An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form;…

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Range 92% connected

To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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See 92% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Simulacrum 92% connected

A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.

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Trope 92% connected

The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the orig…

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Visualize 92% connected

To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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